Took me about 3 months to build (at 4 times a week 3 to 4 hours building)

I used several techniques from CGH; the tumblehome (although i used roofs from cars instead of hinges), the rigging and the sails, thanks for all the tutorials!!, before i was on this forum my ships were boxed, not any use of tumblehome or that sort of things , this forum helped me a lot to improve my ship building .

I also used the building plans from the russian ship the Priediestinacja, i used it for measurements and rigging.

The flags are from the Dutch VOC and in the top of the main mast is the Admirals flag (the Dutch used it to point out that the admirality is on board).

I've made no interiour because of all the special techniques i used it became a mess inside.

The hatches are a bit bigger than mostly used in this forum, it was because i don't have enough hatches so i came up to this (and it looks quite nice IMO )

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This fantastic! Besides the enormous size and great amount of details, the tumblehome is fantastic! I usually think that tilling decks gets a nice effect, but can be very parts-consuming and doesn't worth the money for buying the parts. However, I would suggest you tile your ports; it's actually the only thing I don't like in the ship, though its interesting to see an alternative to flags

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This is just fantastic! As I've said in the WIP Thread my favorite part is the stern, the balconies' shape and the gilding are awesome. You used some great techniques for the tumblehome, but somehow this build still looks very classic. One of my favorite ships.

I usually think that tilling decks gets a nice effect, but can be very parts-consuming and doesn't worth the money for buying the parts. However, I would suggest you tile your ports; it's actually the only thing I don't like in the ship, though its interesting to see an alternative to flags

Indeed i don't have enough tiles to tile the deck, as fot the gunports it would require 1x3 and 2x3 flat tiles as they are now (but studded) if i just would stick tiles on the gunports they would be too fat, i tried that and i didn't liked it.

Awesome ship! congrats on being front-paged!

Thanks, i wasn't expecting being frontpaged, thanks to the Euobricks admin!

Awesome, I still think it's too rough and blocky in the black colored regions, luckley there is an overflow of other stuff to compensate

Mmmmm.....you're a bit right but if i wanted it to be less blocky it would require many many 1x2 tiles with one stud in the middle, than i would build a very sleek ship, i'm already thinking about it but it requires a Bricklink order and i don't have the cash for it right now.

I bet you were working long hours on such beautiful project, congratulations, is a magnificent ship

It took me about 150 hours to build, perhaps more...but thanks for the comment.

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Anyway, this is a fabulous vessel in most regards. The gunports would look much better tiled, and some of the black on the hull is a bit blocky, but otherwise this is one impressive creation. The stern with those elegant drooping balconies just looks fantastic, the rigging is amazing, and from just about every angle the overall shape is superb. Usually I don't like color combos such as this, but it adds to that distinct 16th-17th-century look. Overall this is an excellent vessel, and thanks to her return she nows gives our esteemed De Sandman 2 ships on the first page! Excellent work.